St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-01
DONE BY DEMONS,
The Revolving Crime of Seven
Brid9man Hoodlums.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
PRINCETON, Mimi, May 31.-This
community has been thrown into the
greatest excitement by reason of the
most diabOlical crime known to the law,
viz, the criminal assault of a woman
nineteen years of age, a bride of only
three hours, by seven brutes in human
form. The facts are briefly these: On
the 10th inst. Abraham Beach applied
to the clerk of court for license to
marry Maggie Indian, an educated and
highly-int2lligent and respectable In
dian girl of nineteen summers. Beach
himself is quarter blood Indian and
well educated. The license was duly
issued, and they were legally married
and Immediately took up their abode on
the farm of the bridegroom in the town
of Milo, this county. The "Bridgman
h0odlums, so-called, gang of desper-
ADDE'S who have caused much annoyance
heretofore, conceived the idea of
having some of their customary
sport" as they facetiously termed
it, and after blacking their
faces and otherwise Disgusting them
selves, hired Vet Cone, with his team.
to take them to the scene of operation,
the residence of Beach, some six miles
south of Bridgman. Arriving at his
house about II O'Clock at night, one of
the party knocked at his door and asked
him the way to Princeton. Upon his
coming to the door they rushed in, seized,
overpowered and stripped him naked,
poured moasSeS over his body and
rolled him in a sack of feathers. all of
which they had previously prepared be-
fore they started. In the meantime his
young wife. who had been but three
hours welded, was dragged out of her
bed, and. despite her most pteous
screams and begging for mercy, was.
gagged and criminally assaulted by each
Of the beasts, seven in number. AS soon
as the news reached Princetown of the
horrible outrage, the sheriff and
county attorney fastened to the place
where the crime was committed and
soon were on the track of the villains.
and in short time John Neuman.
Caleb Crook, Comfort Crook, Clarence
Lewis and John &. DeShaW were az
rested, the other two, Ed Grey and
Alex Belair, having fed, and, though
officers are in hot pursuit, have not
been caught. On the oath inst. the four
above-nalned were brought before JUS
tice W. \. Door for examination, j. l..
Brady and Il. G. Dunn appearing as
attorneys for the state and ID. w. Burck-
art as attorney for the defendants. In
tSuSc liilclSSt Wd5 iilttiiitSStCu ny tilc
pOpulace. and the widest excitement
prevailed. Standing room was at a pre-
lEium in tho court house. Threats of
iynching were repeatedly heard, but
better counsel prevailed, and the law
was allowed to take its course. a SEN
Sation was created when the young wife
was carried N and placed on the wit
ness stand. Before she was able to give
any testimony she tainted away, and it
required heroic treatment by the attend
ing physicians, Drs. Cally and Canright,
to rpStore her to consciousness. Since
the commission of the crime she has had
Sevcyal convulsionS and fainting spasms,
and is so low from nervous prostration
that she is not expected to live. At the
examination John G.. Deslaw turned